50+ Simple Tips To Live a More Sustainable Lifestyle

This is a question Maša, and I have been asking ourselves a lot lately. Over the past couple of years, we’ve focused on pairing down and giving up the consumption of animal products. We’re proud of these personal developments, but it’s just a few aspects of what it means to live mindfully, at least in our opinion.

For those of you who might not know, we’re in the process of creating an online store called Fairlings, where we connect essential day-to-day products that are fair trade, vegan, eco-friendly and organic with conscientious and compassionate people. We’re currently interviewing the founders of the brands we’re stocking to get a better understanding of their production process so we can give all of the information required for our customers to make an informed decision.

Through this process, we’ve been inspired by these amazing founders and their desire to not only create products that perform exceptionally well but to also ensure that they put systems in place to limit their impact on the environment.

So we’ve taken this inspiration and turned it into a list of tips to help you live greener and happier. You may already be doing a few of these things, or perhaps all of it, which is fantastic! But hopefully, you pick up some opportunities to do your part to help mother nature.

Living sustainably around the house

Use LED lighting or CFL bulbs instead of incandescent lighting as it’s proven to last longer which reduces the need to keep purchasing light bulbs.

Put on an extra layer of clothing instead of turning on the heating. Seriously doubling up on your socks does wonders!

Open up your blinds and use as much natural light as possible before switching on your light bulbs. You all get to enjoy some more sunshine 🙂

Turn off your lights when you leave a room.

Put up a no junk mail sign on your letterbox to limit the amount of paper you consume.

Hang your wet clothes on a drying line or rack instead of using a powered dryer.

Hand wash your clothes, particularly if you only have a few items to clean.

Loved the article! Think people should be writing more content like this, i’ve new to blogging and have recently written an article on sustainable lifestyles, https://earthflo.com/sustainable-lifestyle/ would love it if you check it out, we talk about a lot of the same things 🙂

Very Nice article. You have covered each aspect of life surrounding us to lead a healthy lifestyle. We have been treating our life for granted and making it full of burden without any reason. Above tips to including in our daily lifestyle helps to lead us a balanced life.

Hi Karin, we believe that dogs can be healthy vegans if fed the proper diet and monitored carefully. From the information that we have read and what others have explained, cats unfortunately cannot be vegan. We wouldn’t feed our pet what we wouldn’t eat. That’s just our opinion 🙂

Hello Michael! I’m doing some research for school on sustainable living! Would it be okay to use some of your points in my papers? (of course I will cite) I’d also love to chat with you. Would it be possible to get your email?
-MaKayla Dulaney (VCU Psychology & Sociology)

Great tips!
Just one question: Is there a reason you didn’t mention airplanes/flying yet? Or did I miss it? Of course it is up to everyone to decide whether or not to fly, but by reading your tips I also hope people will reconsider if and how often they want to fly.

Please do NOT do this. It introduces parasites usually only found in dog and cat feces into our waterways and marine ecosystems. I’m also pretty sure it is illegal in a lot of places. An alternative would be compostable poo bags.

Hi! Loved the article and I try my best to accomplish as most things on the list as a first year can, but, I do have one constructive critic to add, I can’t go vegan, my system just doesn’t mix with it (had to get hospitalized when I attempted it), it would be really thoughtful of you guys to say “Or better yet, go vegan! If you can” for I know of a few others with my situation. Sorry if I’m wasting your time and this is all sounding silly, have a nice day!

Thank you for your kind words and suggestions Paul. It’s unfortunate to hear about your situation. Just to clarify, what do you eat if you can’t eat plants at all? Also reviewing the sentence, we feel that it’s positioned in an approachable inclusive way, as we lead with whole foods and the call to action to go vegan is an extension.

Shame the most useful tip is ranked in 56th position.
Vegans claim not to like animal suffering or exploiting animals. Well then they shouldn’t have any children (suffering is built-in and collapse is in sight because we are already about 2.5 times too many for the carrying capacity of our territory…) and it is exploitative because having children with the aim of being looked after when one is old just is a form of exploitation. It is very likely that most youngsters won’t get old anyway so they won’t need looking after, and then there is always Dignitas which is preferable than the slow, undignified exit imposed in certain “civilised” /”developed” countries.